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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-01-15
TENNESSEE.
BY REV. C. S. PERcTvAI, PHI. D.

Fair state, whom thronging sisters bless,
Clustering round like maidens gay;
As if, with many fond caress,
To hail thee as their queen OF May
Bright land, thro' which two rivers bright,
Tasting in ocean homes to dwell,
Turn back to linger with delight
Awhile mid scenes they love so we'll
Fain would join that sister throng
In fond devoirs about thy throne:
And, when they tune their sweetest song,
Join with ii, as of old, my own.
And, like those streams, reluctantly
Compelled to leave thy fair domain,
backward turn in memory
To leave my hsppiest days;
To visit scenes so loved of yore,
And friends whose hearts beat warm AM
Or II they beat, alas! no more,
Their love survives beyond the blue.
Chicago Eveni,g journal.
WATERLOO, Iowa, Dec. 10, 1886. N. s.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-01-15
Kitchen Reforms for Next Year.

Some individual who has probably
spent considerable time in the kitch-
en- counting the hired girl, has noted
the many little leakages which cause
the head of the family to growl. In
making the slate of reform for the
New Year, just glance over this little
bill of particulars:
In cooking meats the water is
thrown out without removing the
grease, or the grease from the drip
ping-pan is thrown away.
Scraps of meat are thrown away.
Cold potatoes are left to sour and
spoil. ru
Dried fruits are not looked after and
become wormy.
Vinegar and sauce are left standing
in tin.
Apples are left to decay for want of
sorting over".
The tea-cannister is left open.
Victuals are left exposed to be eaten
by mice.
Bones of meat and the carcass of
turkey are thrown away, when they
could be used in making good soups.
Sugar, tea, coffee and rice are care
|
lessly spilled in handling.
Soap is left to dissolve and waste in
the water.
Dish-towels are used for dish-cloths.
Napkins are used for dish-towels.
Towels are used for holders.
Brooms and mops are not hung up.
More coal is burned than necessary
by not arranging dangers when not
using the fire.
Lights are left burning when not
used.
Tin dishes are not properly cleans
ed and dried.
Good new brooms are used in scrub
bling kitchen floors.
Silver spoons are used in scraping
kettles.
Cream is left to mold and spoil.
Mustard is left to spoil in the cruise
| Vinegar is left to stand until the
vessel becomes corroded and spoiled
Pickles become spoiled by the
leaking out or the evaporation of the
vinegar.
Pork spoils for want of salt, and
beef because the brine wants scald
ing.
Hams become tainted or filled witt
vermin from want of care.
Cheese molds and is eaten by mice
and vermin.
Tea and coffee pots are injured Oh
the stove.
Woodenware is left to warp ant
crack.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-01-15
Antlers of Deer.

London Queen.
The antlers of deer are occasional
ly, though very enormously, called
horns, from which they differ essen
TALLY in every respect except that Of
growing from the head of the animal
which produces them. True horns,
as seen on oxen, are never shed; they
are formed of horny or animal mate
rial capable of beings of tenedby heat,
and usually semi-transparent. Ant
lers, on the contrary, are but tempo
rary; they grow annually, being shed
every year. In place of consisting of
horn, they are formed of most solid
bone, which grows from the forehead.
Their rapid growth, which only takes
few weeks in the year, is due to the
blood vessels in the velvety skin COW
ering the budding antlers, bringing
the bony material and depositing it
in the form of an antler. When this
is fully formed the velvety skin dries
up, and the hard, firm, solid antler,
with which the stag can attack Others
or defend itself, is left, the dried skins
coming off in long strips, which may
often be seen on the deer in the
Geological Gardens. At the end of
the season the base of the antler,
where it springs from the bone of the
forehead, is absorbed and the antler
falls, leaving a raw place, which
quickly skins over, and in due time
another pair of antlers-larger and
with more points than those of the
preceding year-take their place.
With the exception Of the reindeer,
the females are destitute of antlers.
There are many distinct families OF
deer. Some like the red deer, having
cylindrical horns, with sharp points,
capable of inflicting the most fatal in
juries; others, like the fallow deer,
have the antlers fiattened out into
broad plates.
Stays are gregarious, a herd consist
ing of one male and several females,
for whose possession the males fight
in the most furious manner. Some
times in their most violent rushes
against each other the antlers become
50 ineXtricably interlOcked that they
can not free themselves from one
another, in which case slow and
! painful death by starvation is the fate
of both cOmbatants. There are few
museums that do not contain speci
mems of the skulls of animals that
have persisted by this singular ac
cidcnt.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-01-15
Does it Pay to Be a Woman ?

The above question is being agita-
ted in many of our exchanges, and
many of the views respecting it are
very amusing. One writer, evident
ly woman whose path in life has
been thorny one, complains bitterly
that it does not pay to be woman
and receive three hundred dollars a
year for the same work that man
would. be paid six or eight hundred
for. At the same time she calls at
tention to the fact that when a man
usurps :. woman's province, he still
receives double pay, as in the case of
cooks and laundrymen.
MAnother woman" finds it an easy
matter to
"Sit on cushion and sew up seam,
And live upon Strawberries, sugar and
cream"
She does not appear to reflect, that to
many of us the seam is an endless
one, that all cushions are not of dam
ask and down, that much of the
"cream" Of life is only skim milk,
and that 1T is given to only a few Of
us to have our Strawberries served
upon Sevres.
Since, however, the matter is one
beyond our control, and having be-
gun life as woman, we cannot we'll
change our role, it seems to me that
themost pertinentquestion is, "What
manner of woman shall we be?"
Surely a woman pays her sex a
poor compliment in ceaselessly Ia
menting that heaven has not made
her "such" a man. In the present
enlightened age, we women have
really very little cause for complaint
nearly every business and all profe5'
sions are open to us, since even grim
and conservative old Yale has made
lady an M. d., and Columbia Col
lege conferred upon blushing miss
the title of Bachelor of Arts.
Some years ago, a lady moving il
the most refined circles of New York
with an elegant home and every en-
joyment of lifethat money could buy
by a sudden reverse in fortune tina
often comes to the wealthy, lost every
dollar of her money. next saw he
, in the log cabin of a California settle
!, ment, doing for her family the dutie
, of nurse, cook and seamstress. In thu
one room that did duty for parlor
nursery and bedroom, with the aid o
the tin wash basin that took the plac,
of her luxurious bathroom and toile
equipments, she cheerfully washed
r the hands and faces and smootheC
, the curls of her little ones, with ;
) smile and cheerful word for all. l
"pays" to be such a woman. "He
children shall Else up and call he
blessed, her husband, also, hepraisetl
) her." A WORKING-WOMAN.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-01-15

A tallow candle or piece of tallOw
wrapped in tissue paper and laid
among furs or other garments will
prevent the ravages of moths.
We have 10000 ministers teaching
the people the ways of truth and
right, and 100000 liquor sellers dHNl-
ing ont death and destruction.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-08-05


THIS spontaneous outburst of invita-
tons to the President from all quarters
has somewhat suspicious look. Per-
haps the movement isn't being en-
gineered by Democratic politicians, but
it would not be surprising if such be the
truth. The people are not by any means
dying to see the President, though some
of them may think that he needs TO see
and know something outside of his ma
tive State. Still, his recent babyish,
vote-begging epistle to the st. Louis
committee has certainly left an impress
sion of profound disgust in the minds OF
Western people, and they would not
grleve to see him set in his big chair
and sweat his time of office out. If he
comes West, and it seems altogether
probable that sort of electioneering
tour has been decided on, the people Of
the West will show him that they know
how to treat President and he will be
under no necessity to reiterate his fears
that the dignity of the great Office he
holds will be insulted.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-08-05

SINCE the Texas fever was reported at
Greenleaf. Kansas, two weeks ago, the
contagion has spread with remarkable
rapidity, until now reports from Wash
ington and Montgomery counties show
most unhealthy condition of cattle.
One farmer has already lost ninety per
cent of his stock. The disease came
from Kansas City. A drove of several
hundred head OF cattle was shipped TO
Greenleaf against the orders of the in
spector. The legislature failed to APP
propriate any money for the protection
of the cattle interests, and the state is
practically helpless to wage the battle
against the fever. The railroads, how
ever, will be called upon to stop the
shipment of any more diseased cattle.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-08-05
COUNTY coMMISSIoERS PRO-
CEEDINGS.

Board met July 25, 1887. Present
Commissioners Lee, Hannay, Dietz, Dia-
mond and Jones.
On motion ordered that the damages
awarded to parties in the town of James
town for judicial road be paid on or be-
fore June LIST, 1888.
Petition of l.. N. Turner and 247 others
for bridge across the Blue Earth river
at Cable Mills was received and ordered
placed on file.
Petition of S. Peet and 6l0 others for a
bridge across the Maple river on section
20, I05, % received and ordered placed
on file.
Petition of j. A. Williams and others
for road in the town of South Bend was
received and Commissioners j. S. Jones,
A. M. Hannay and H. K. Lee were APP
pointed committee to view proposed
road to meet at the house of Caleb Leay-
lit on the 9TH day of September 1887.
Petition of Geo. A. Fuller and others
for change of road in the town of James
town received and Commissioners H. X.
Lee, G. H. Dietz and John Diamond
were appointed a committee to view
proposed road to meet at the house of
Patrick Murphy on the Srd day of Sep
TENDER 1887.
Petition of o. E. Treanor and others
for road from the center of section Is,
town of Danville received and Commits
sioners A. M. Hannay and c. H. Dietz
were appointed committee to meet at
the village of Mapieton on the 10Th day
of September 1887.
On motion ordered that the tax of
$3.50 ordered by the County Auditor
against the 81 nwf and nj swt sec. SO,
1929 for the year 1886 be cancelled and
tax of SAT- 81 entered in its stead, all
the members voting aye, except Com
missioner Diamond, who voted no.
Board met July 26th, 1887, at 8 a. m.
All the members present.
Petition of Al. Schwarzenbacha and 9TH
ers for the formation of new school
district to be composed of sections A, 5,
Is, Z, s, 8, I6 and nj of set of sec IL, and
nj of sec is and all of sec 81, all in town
107, range % was granted, new district
to be numbered l46.
Petition of ]. N. Ewing for a new
school district in the town of lie Ray
was withdrawn.
Petition of L. Cray and others for a
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-08-05

On motion Board adjourned to July
10, 1887.
Board of Equalization met July 10Th at
Ga. m. All the members present.
On motion ordered that the valuation
for year 1887 on structures on lot 2 and
n 10 $500 a. ofIot 3, sec %, 1926, be
reduced to 500.
On motion ordered that the valuation
for year 1887 on structures on lot and 8
IL SLIGO a. of lot 8, sec %, 1925 be
raised 500.
On motion ordered that the valuation
for year SS7 in the sci net, sec 80, 105-
26 be reduced $780,
On motion ordered that the valuation
for the year 1887 on nw4 mel and nwi
except acre school lot sec %, 10S- 20, be
reduced $500.
On motion ordered that the valuation
for year 1887 on lot 3, Marsh's addition
to Mankato be reduced $500.
On motion ordered that the valuation
for year 1887 on a. of lots 4 and 5, sec.
80, 10S-2S be reduced $500.
On motion ordered that the valuation
for year 1887 on 60 4-10O a. of lots and
2, sec II, l05-28 be reduced $1,000.
On motion ordered that the valuation
for year 1887 on und. of S ] nw4, sec 8,
10S-29, be reduced $1,000.
On motion ordered that the valuation
for 1887 on lot 5, block 80, City of, Man
kato, be reduced $500.
On motion ordered that the valuation
for year 1887 on lot 5, block IS, Van
Brunt's addition to Mankato be reduced
$10O.
On motion ordered that the valuation
for year 1887 on lot 6, block Is, Van
Brunt's addition be reduced $175.
On motion ordered that the valuation
for year 1887 on 16 a. of 80 a. of set,
swf, sec 80, 1923, be reduced $1,000.
On motion ordered that the valuation
for the year 1887 on Mt of lots and in
block 5, Cummings addition to Mankato
be reduced 500.
On motion ordered that the valuation
for year 1887 on lots 1 to 5, block 1873,
City of Mankato, be reduced 500.
On motion ordered that the valuation
for year 1887 on 81, net sec IL, 106-27,
be reduced $500.
On motion ordered that the valuation
for year 1873 on WI, set sec 5, 1925, be
reduced 1920.
On motion ordered that the personal
property valuation of Hans Knudson in
the city of Mankato be reduced $1,000.
On motion ordered that the personal
property valuation of Oliver Ashley in
the town of Ceresco be reduced 1915 for
the year 1887. ....
On motion ordered that the personal
property valuation for the year 1887 of
Selmer Fellows in the town of Raw
be reduced $1425.
On motion ordered that the personal
property valuation of William Jones in
the city of Mankato be reduced 800 for
year 1887.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-08-05
The Revenue Surplus,

WASHINGTON. July 29.-The revenues
so far this month amount to over $32,-
000, 900, an average of more than $780,
600 day. The expenditures during
the same time, including $ll $780, 600
paid for pensions, amount to about $685.
100000. The expenses so far this
month have been less than anticipated,
by the reason of failure of the navy
department to make certain expected
acquisitions. At the same time the re-
ceipts were greater than was estimated
July l. Treasurer Hyatt reports the
surplus to-day as $44, 1OO, 600, an increase
of nearly 100000 since the same date
of last month. Treasury officials, how
ever, believe the heavy payment to be
made next month will again reduce the
surplus to about $S7, zoo, 900 by the first
of September.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-08-05
NOT FOR GEORGE.

In giving some reasons why the So
called Labor party of Henry Georges
management can not hope to be a per-
manent success in this country, General
Sickles recently ended an interview with
the opinion that its death blows would
come from the country districts, or from
cities where the mechanics are mostly
naturalized Germans or native Amer
leans who have acquired homes with
comparative ease. Outside of few of
the larger cities he thought it must soon
disband, "for the United States is
great landed Democracy" +
The Chicago Inter Ocean thinks
the status of the Republic has seldom
been more aptly defined. Its popula-
ton has increased as the population of
no other nation has ever done by immi-
grafton, which has been attracted by
high wages and cheap homes. The
prairies and forests of what was once
called the West but which is now Il
part of the Middle States, were largely
converted into farms by men who had
purchased quarter and half-quarter sec
tions of land with the savings of wages
earned in railroad or canal construction.
The moderate size and vast number of
the holdings in all the thoroughly set
tied States are evidence of their pur-
chase by the savings of labor. In a
lesser degree like process of settlement
is going on in the far West. The hold
ings in Dakota and Nebraska and Kan
sas may be little larger than the aver
age or original holdings in Illinois or
Indiana, but this is due to the operation
of the homestead and the tree-planting
laws, under which the head of family
may become the owner of half a section
with scarcely the expenditure of dol
lar for title to possession. In few
years the equitable action of our laws OF
inheritance will reduce the average size
of Western farms to those of the Middle
States.
Perhaps there could be no better time
than the present for the followers of Mr..
1 D6OFk6 10 Try IllclT bJIcLRbh. AhCy Cdu
poll larger vote in 1888 than they will
ever be able to poll again, and for these
reasons: the Republican party will pre-
sent solid object for their attack; it
will pronounce squarely against confisca-
ton and monopoly, whether by foreign
or domestic corporations or by individ-
uals, or by that more perfect and heart
less monopoly known as "socialistic
government" while, on the other hand,
the Democratic party is SO certain to go
into the campaign with set of say
everything and mean-nothing resolu-
tons that the Georgians may look for
some recruits, who, however, may soon
become deserters from it. Should the
so-called Labor party place Presiden-
tial ticket in the field, even under the
suspicious circumstances just recounted,
it would be at once and forever smoth-
cred under the votes of the greatlanded
democracy of the United States.n
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-08-05

THE president is pretty hard on the
committee of good looking citizens
which the Twin cities proposed to send
to Washington TO extend their invita-
ton to Grover to visit them this fall. Mr..
Cleveland telegraphs that he will accept
in advance but urges them to keep their
citizens at home. Though it seems too
bad those "big, broad shouldered" fell
lows couldn't have had chance to
show themselves at Washington, the
President has set the Twins an exam
pie of good sense. What reason there
ever was for sending delegation to re-
peat an invitation which had already
been sent and answered was not read
lily conceivable
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-08-05
Blaine is all Right.

AUGUSTA, Me-, July S0.-The Kenne-
bee Journal to-day says that the state
ment in telegram from Washington as
sorting that Mr.. Blaine is a very sick
man and suffering from serious intern
al disorder, is an error. A letter receiv-
ed in this city this week and written by
Mrs. Blaine and dated Bridge of Earn,
Scotland, July 10, contains this state.
ment, "Mr. Blaine was never in better
health than he has been on this trip
He is enjoying Scotland hugely. He
drives and walks daily and has several
times danced on the green, thing he
has not done before for years."
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-08-05
MINUTES OF BOARD OF EQUAL.
IZATION.

Board met July 18th. 1887. Present
Commissioners Lee, Diamond, Hannay
Jones and Dietz and County Auditor
Scattergood.
The oath as required by law having
been administered by w. B. Torreyi
clerk of the District Court, the Board
proceeded TO examine the assessment
books as returned by the various assess
ors.
On motion ordered that the following
changes be made in The valuation as re-
turned by the different assessors and the
following per sentage was ordered 10 be
added to the valuation by assessors:
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-08-05
Excitement in Texas.

Great excitement has been caused in
the vicinity Of Paris, Texas, by the re-
markable recovery of Mr.. j. Z. Corley,
who was so helpless be could not turn in
bed, or raise his head everybody said
he was dying Of Consumption. A trial
sent him. Finding relief, he bought .
IarCe bottle and a box of DIR. Kings New
fife pills: by the time he had taken two
boxes of Pills and two bottles of the
Discovery. he was well and had gained
IN fiesh thirty-six pounds. Trial Bottles
Of this Great Discovery for Consumption
free at j. r. Jones.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-08-05

Depew's Trip to Europe Said to
Have no Connection with Railroad
Matters.
New York, July 29.-The Tribune says:
No confirmation can be obtained here
of the report from the West that Chaun-
cey M. Depew and President Ledyard,
of the Michigan Central railroad, have
gone to Europe to float seven million
dollars of bonds for the building of the
entirely new line of railroad from Du-
luth to the Straits of Mackinaw. The
latest utterances of Mr.. Depew, before
he departed, were deprecatory of any
idea that the Vanderbilt interests desir-
ed to extend their Investments in any
direction at present, and it is generally
understood that the existing and con-
templated plan was favored by private
investments of Mr.. Ledyard and many
friends of the so-called Vanderbilt fol-
lowing. Mr.. Depew said before he
started that he was going to Europe
solely for pleasure, and his friends
here do not feel at liberty to contra
dict him in his absence.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-08-05

THE democratic and mugwump sheets
continue to deal in the lying report that
Governor Foraker is rampant Blaine
man and opposed to the endorsement
resolution. The fact that the Governor
recently gave it out emphatically that
he was for Sherman for president, first,
last and all the time, counts with moth
ing with these prevaricators. A little
while ago they were accusing Foraker OF
workings presidential boom for his own
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-08-05

THE centennial anniversary of the set
Element of Ohio is going to be pretty for
chilly celebrated next year. Columbus
is to have the semi-official doings in con-
nection with the State fair, and prepa-
rations have been going on already for Il
year past. Cincinnati, of course, couldn't
be outdone in State pride, so her citizens
have Just subscribed a million dollar
guarantee fund for a grand celebration
to be held at the time of the annual ex-
rnoitinn
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-08-05

THE st. Panl Globe in paying its re-
.spects to the Republican platform
adopted by the party yesterday in Ohio,
says:
at remains to be seen, however,
whether the intelligent voters of Ohio
are as gulhble as the Toledo convention
thinks. Flies are not caught with vine
gar, however firmly Sherman and his
followers may be convinced to the con-
trarY."
This is the first time we ever heard a
leading Democratic organ call members
of its own party ''fiies." Almost any
other name would have sounded famll-
lar. But the Bourbon party is reduced
to mere "speck," and perhaps "flies'
is about as appropriate an appellation as
any other.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-08-05

THE Minnesota & Northwestern seems
determined to inaugurate new order OF
things in railroad affairs. It last Satur-
day made a cut in freight rates between
Minneapolis, st. Paul and the Minnesota
Transfer to Chicago of from thirty-three
10 forty per cent. Other roads Will OF
necessity have to follow suit. The Min
nesota & Northwestern also yesterday
put on line of fast trains to Chicago, a
convenience which had long been pray
ed for by the travelling public,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-08-05
A Philadelphia Bank Fails for
&2OO 600

PHILADELPHIA, July 30.-The Column
bian bank, located at 433 Chestnut street,
has failed as the result of the refusal OF
Henry S. Ives q Co., of New York, to
honor drafts made upon them. The
amount involved is 100000. The Farm
ers' & Mechanical bank will be the prin-
cipal losers. The Columbian had a
branch savings bank at Germantown,
patronized principally by working peo-
nile.